"If a player wont shoulder responsibility, he wont work on his weaknesses, which means he wont improve. Hell be constantly on the prowl for a fall guy or a scapegoat, and his teammates becomes epidemic."

"Another strike of lightening – now accompanied by the deep-bellied rumble, and the horse reared, incidentally setting Henry very picturesquely against the inconstant moon. Alas, Catherine was deeply engaged in her argument with Old Edric and this missed entirely the melodramatic display. But we may assume that, possessing so strong an imagination, Catherine had often pictured Henry thus..."

"Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You cant really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision."

"Blank eyes stared from sunken sockets as if the divine force, the daimon, had been extinguished like a lamp, replaced by a weariness beyond description, a stare without effect, the hollow gaze of hell itself."

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